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.. . *•* ^ v W " » * /. i £.?L • Thtufi^^eWaary 24, IMF t> iw •*,•:•':•: ' / ^ , ,;>T"*'4>„ - * '"tr * \* . ?'- ?• •} ' .viiv-«**v ,'nr* -*-f /#'• V^rV* -\-'.p.V< t< * ^ V.Y ' ,, *L •' '><* ,* t ~:A y. '.-I t/-'; vl "vj r-/«*< ,vMV"" . r' «r-..- v Vr . ' , ;: THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER ' ' i f • : : ' ; r * 7 ; - ' ^ t i . ' * ; » * " Page Seven . " - . . : iitf Released by Western Newspaper Union. LESSON LEARNED IN LAST WAR? WE AMERICANS are a mSrgnanl* mous people. We will fight for what we believe in but when the enemy cries "enough," we take him by the hand, put him on his feet and assist him to a speedy recovery. We did just that following World War I. We were largely responsible for the acceptance of an armistice. We fought for lenient terms for the defeated enemy in opposition to Clemenceau and Lloyd George. We loaned the enemy money--which he did not repay--with which to aid his quick recovery. We did not understand the German character. I know a German gardener, now a loyal American citizen, and he knows the German character.. I Well remiember my first conversation with him some two years ago. World s War II was just opening so far as we were concerned. Our conversa- > tion turned to that subject. "It was a mistake for the First World war to have stopped before the Allied armies marched into Berlin," he said, "before the German people had fully realized what war on the home soil meant t6 them. Had they had that lesson, a Hitler would not have been possible and this war would not have happened." That German-American gardener understands, better than I do, the German people. He knows the lesson they must have before the idea of world dominance is removed from their minds. This time let us hope it will be different. May we have "unconditional surrender" in all that implies and as amplified by the Teheran conference. May there be no bargaining as to terms. May the German people know, as they have made others know, what war on the home soil means, actual land war as well as air bombing. Germany, it seems, will learn only the hard way, just as the French, under Napoleon, had to iearn the hard way. We hope for no softening of the terms but should we, in a new burst of soft-mi|idl£d~xgenerosify, urge such a thing, the Fttisst^ns will complete the job that must be done if Germany is to learn that war does not pay, that might does not make right. CHISELERS AND WAR EFFORT IN THE SLUSH AND SNOW and mud of Italy, in the slimy tropical jungles of the islands of the South Pacific, in the air over Germany, Burma and China, men are fighting . and dying that we and they may remain free. They are doing their part of the job on the battlefronts with no thought of per&onal advantage. It is the rare exception for any of us on the home front not to have someone dear to us--a son, grandson, husband, brother, nephew or friends--numbered among those oh the battlefronts. X)ne and all those dear ones offered everything, including- life, that we and they may continue to enjoy the blessings of liberty. I Under such conditions it is not I easy to imagine any of those on the j home front using the war as a means j to personal gain. Who of the pro- ! ducers of food, planes, tanks, ships and guns are so base as to make of the war needs a means of making extra profits, a few paltry dollars? There are some such chiselers. Who of the workers are so base as to use the peril of the nation as a club with which to enforce demands for increased wages? That there are some such chiselers was again demonstrated when several thousand coal miners refused to dig badly needed coal on Armistice day because they would not be paid time and one-half. All such chiselers, whether they be the producers of war essentials or workers in the mines, factories and on the farms, are not loyal citizens. They are traitors, not alone to their government, but to those dear to them serving on the battlefronts. * • • THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENT that marked the close of World War I provided, among other things, that Germany surrender her fleet and that she pay for the destruction she had caused. She turned over the fleet to England, claiming for it on her reparations account more than it had cost to construct and the claim was allowed. But German crews scuttled all the ships in an English harbor and England had to pay for removing the hulks as an obstruction' to navigation. What sharp German tricks will she attempt this time arid will the Allies fall for them as they did before? • • • PERSONALLY I AM more than willing to entrust Hitler's future to Joe Stalin, but I doubt that Hitler would agree. * • • LOVE OF SELF IS THE FATHER of selfishness and selfishness begets our own unhappiness. • • • THE ONE OBSTACLE THE FARMER has been successful in surmounting is the racketeering labor leader. The racketeer's difficulty is in finding mass elements to Washington Dipestj Compromise Forecast in Debate on JOHNSBURG Labor to Use Organized Strength to Fight Increased Prices: Administration Is • : Counting on That Support niversary in their, home Sunday.! Save^Steel About 75 relatives and frionds were An arm> order for 500,000 wooden present. Those from out of town folding ehairssaved 4,000 tons of were: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Delson, Mr. BteeL ; and Mrs. Elmer Miller, Mrs. Ohris- '• • tina Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald U. S Operates Laundries Miss Mam Lay and Bol The U. S. corps op- _ (By MrArthur Kl»in) _ Miss Dolores Michels celebrated Klaus xne u. a. quartermaster corps opher thirteenth birthday anniversary Bonsteel of Chicago; Leo. Lay, Petty erates 219 laundries in all parts.of in the home of her parents, Mr. and Officer 1-C of Camp Peary, Williams- toe world, including jjfr Mrs. George Michels. Thursday ^ eve- burg, Va.; Arnold May of Camp Clai- cleaning plants. ning by inviting her classmates, borne. La., Mr. and Mrs. John F. • Games furnished the evening's enter- Fuchs of Humphrey, Neb., Miss Mary • <w h n taiment and refreshments were serv- K. Schmitt and Miss H»Vel Sond- k iuSt* P0rp#, „ . ;ed to Misses Diane FreunJ. El.ine gcroth of Sterling, 111. The happy Land Q7.lt H TM t . South America Is?Making '""'Jh Own Portland Cement Now ' In Peru, Portland cement is pro- /• duced by only, one company. Re- 'P : ported output rose from 732,339 bar-, ! rels of 170 net kilograms each in,\ .'.--i* - 1940, to 987,482 barrels in the first1 rfine months of 1942.* Japan was the country's largest supplier from abroad in 1940 and 1941. Peruvian I imports of cement dropped from 105,260 bartels in 1940, to 30,573 bar- :>:• By BAUKHAGE Natvs Analyst and Commentator; WNtJ Service, t*ii!on TTrust Building, Washington, D. C. A few weeks ago, an earnest and agreeable young man came to my office from the American Farm Bureau federation. His name is Ben Kilgore. He is a Kentucky Farm bureau man, a former farm paper Editor who has just been put in charge of the bureau's publicity here in Washington, probably as a" result of some, remarks without any bark oh them which Chester Davis, for? mer war food administrator and president Of the Federal Reserve Bank of-St. Louis, made at the recent bureau convention. Davis did not say that the bureau and some other farm organizations were interfering with the war effort and trying to be hoggish by fighting for higher food prices but he did say that the people of the country were beginning to talk that way about farmers. And he told the organization members that if they weren't as black as they were painted, they had better bejgin telling the people of the country so. And so the bureau went out for some "new blood." Kilgore is not new to the farm bureau but he is new to Washington. He has served in Kentucky. He knows his subject and can write about it. I couldn't say whether he has brightened the grim picture which Mr. Davis painted to the bureauhe has hardly had time--but his presence is evidence of dynamics which are energizing this chip of the farm bloc--or one might put it the other way, for the Farm Bureau federation is really the tail that wags the dog when it comes to getting congressional action. And soon action will begin, for the grace extended to the Commodity Credit corporation expires February 17 and then the fight over the subsidies begins in earnest. The Federation 'Lint? What the publicity plans of: the farm organizations are, I do not know, but this is the "line" as Kilgore expressed it to me: "The American Farm Bureau federation is not opposing consumer subsidies in order to break down price control and obtain higher farm prices. The present general farm price level is high enough. All we ask is for a Yew sensible price adjustments on specific commodities . . . -Such small and specific adjustments are far more practical and wholesome than a billion or more dollars out of the federal, treasury to help pay the consumers grocery bill and to regiment and socialize the farmers of this nation." The War Food administration, charged with carrying out the war farm program, has no publicity plan. As a matter of fact, the office of Administrator Jones is° about the quietest place in Washington as far as the public goes. Its work is carried on without press agenting right now. One reason why we don't hear much from the war food administrator right now is because the food situation is pretty good. Of course, there is wrangling about prices but that isn't in his department. The last week in January he announced his, support prices which can't be carried out unless the three billion dollar agency that keeps floors under farm prices, the Commodity Credit corporation, is continued. Jones made it plain that the 1944 program depended entirely on congressional action. In reply to a question, he said it could be carried out "without subsidies." There isn't,^any question that congress will favor the support plan. That's' accepted as essential in wartime and sometimes welcomed at other times. The reasoning is that you don't ask a munition maker to sign a contract Co deliver 'machine guns without telling him what tfte price will be. In order to carry out the farm program, you have to demand certain things of the farmer in order to get the thing you want. Hence the guaranteed price. But subsidies are a horse of a different colo«. Support prices protect the producer. Subsidies protect the consumer. Without them, the price ceilings crack. Farm income has risen 116 per cent in dollars ^ince 1939: when the war in Europe began. During the cv, „i»„ o,wr rk •' ~t " "* ""fi'.' i,an<i Army women belong to the" ' r.els 1941» ^ t0 3,553 barrela in SShT«ssr w,,h °'an5' I£b fl"isrps;. '» Tths °h T „ 41 ; Betty Ann .Mi"er. Kathleen OtfTlin* , Da^ie! K.m«b«k. 8 2-C. turned • !OT USe• .».lhe £££?* l and Eileen Smith of IfcHemy. . to his station in Norfolk. Va , Friday. , ' . j present expansion plans have been- • • • j Hank Britz S 2-C reported back to j Mrs- Charles Smith and son, Jim- . ', ] completed, it is hoped output will . ) : Great Lakes training station after my> spent a few days in th* ftonie «f j Loiig-Wearlrig Garment suffice for all needs. The one ce- ~ • I enjoying a furlough among" friends Mrs. Jos. Hiller. j K you want long-time wear from ment company covered 98 per cent , \ v,.,.^;and relatives. , . • " • ' -- g a r m e n t , i t should be conservative of consumption in 1940 and 87 per la?t TXar, it rose steadily, 128--per1 The infant daughter of Mr. and Olives Biblical Fruit " m style,_ and on the upward swing cent in 1941. Present annual Output •-« cent. , However, there is a catch in Mrs. John Weingart was christened - Olive leaves and oil play a large XantS t« is about •23.°0° metric'tons, It is. vr •; Z those figures. In the last ,w?ir» the Janet Kay with Rev. A. J. Neidert P®rt ' in biblical lore as weil as. is , v - ' i>ng~ ^ , v, hoped to double this. , officiating at the ceremony, j»Iiss anc^en^ legends crf Meditet1-\ ^: •' Chile produces most of the cement Helen Fuchs of Omaho, Neb.,' and r*nean countries. , ' 4 ^ Bacterial Ring-Rot >*• •/ it uses. The minister of finance W.iHiam Weihgurt were sponsors "1 ^ fanner's dollar rose only 13 cents in purchasing power. Today, the farmer's income has risen 72 fter cent in terms of purchasing pow^r. Preliminary Report ffiaeterial ring-rot of ' .potato- state's-' that' .the ' Sotiedad Cemento ^ t Mr and Mrs John S Furh< . Rifle Experts ; shows as yellowing and wilting df" Juan Saldada, S. A., capitalized at Humohrev'- Neb and Mi« 31 natiofl|l./.-.r«U?>\the vines, ®hd'by &. yellow or cream- .<0 million .pesos, has been formed; n/owinV n" Ni,.h -since S m&- color ring in the tuber about, a quar- to manufacture cement. One project * § : .rine corps rifle,teams have captured ter of an inch below the skin, that is for a plant ™rs- .15 championships. ; . ' can be pushed out by squeezing. Coquimtio."- In 9? ?r vftoe rifle teamls have^cagtured Sat : ^Ln the Province anama, the presi- ' '• V5 February 17, debate Will begin on urday to^•-•visit' withP Mr. and the bill extending the life;of the Com- John Weingart and family. . ; - , - j n , . v . , „ modity Credit corporation containing ; > Mr. and Mrs, John S. Fuchs, • Mi*# ' \ ~~ '. Helen Fuchs, and Mr. and Mrs; John |- SloPinf Terraces ^ ^, ; Weingart and family were quests / tr58ls show that satisfactory in the Fred J. Smith home Mondav: 2erIaceo 5an on sl°Pes up Mrs. Catherine Smith celebrated tp . or ?.^er cent h* usin8 a tractor her sixty-seventh birthday anniver- ' sary Sunday. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstock, Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Smith and daughters, Phyllis and Marilyn an anti-subsidy provision. Meanwhile, the farm bloc adherents and supporters will probably carry on a pretty good publicity plan for their side and some of the consumer groups will be heard from. Labor will shout the loudest and most effectively. But that is simply because it is a large and a wellorganized group. It is • strange thing, but America, which has ori and moldboard plow. ganizations of almost every kind and ( description formed largely for in- 1 creasing the income of its members, has very few organizations formed for the purpose of decreasing their expense. Consumers, as such, are not organized. There are, of course, a few cooperatives but they are . hardly mare than local affairs and. Rent Control Federal rent control, it is estimat- <!trsn»p ni,u unuyrnters, riijius anu iwaruyn. prevented a rise in the nation's has or- ^r" ar)d Mrs. Jos. Regner, Mr. and rent bill of $300,000,000 during 1942, Mrs. Alex Preund and daughter, aRd wiU save a billion dollars dim v :K.'y Valve Warping " \ V- Never shut off a tractor immediately after running at full load. Valve warping is^ofteh caused by not letting the engine idle a short time before stopping so that tike' valves may cool gradually. Nancy, of Chicago, Mrs. Florence ^8 1943. Geier, Mrs. Helen Kreutzer and Mrs. Mamie King and son, Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griffith of Chicago spent a few days in their home .at Pistakee Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Straub and family of Chicago were -Coirn Total-dry weight of sila e corr continues to increase until the ears are nearly mature unless leaves di* and 'fall off before that time. Oi „ -- „ „ weekend i the other hand, total green w«.»i„h; comparatively speaking, small and gruests of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Het- begins to decrease at least twt --- • * -• * termann. - weeks before maximum weight is Mr. and Mrs. Francis Schmitt en- reached. This reduces the total tertained the ushers, trustees and we'ght of material which must bt Rev. A. J. Neidert in their home,; handled Thursday evening. --: Mr. and Mrs. John P. Schaefer; Clean Chimneys entertained their club Sunday even- Before heavy fires are started in For Stains in Rayon In removing stains from the rajw Oft materials, mild acids and alkalies can b& used if they are well rinsed out. Rayon is weakened by Water; therefore, handle it carefully when wet and avoid twisting and pulling. Coquimbo. •Jii dent of the {^frtfblic has been a moving spirit in plans for a cement • plant. An announcement appeared'" in Lav Estrella de Panama of the or- ' ganization of a $1,500,000 corporation for the purpose. Tentative plans have been da^vn for a plant in Maria Euger.JFa village in the Chilibre area of Panama. This site is said to be accessible to hydro-electric power, and to reserves of raw material adequate to maintain a 100-ton daily capacity for 75 yean. River's Name cnanged The Hudson river was called the Mauritius by the early Dutch. weak,. This is due to the cheerful American theory' that if you haven't got enough money to pay your expenses, you ought to £0 out and get some more money. In any case, labor (although organized primarily to get more pay) Smokeless Powder The term "smokeless powder" is j merely comparative. There is still i Some smoke in "smokeless" powder, > -- -- ~~ j but it is merely a wisp compared hsrt two months. ; with the clouds produced by its ! predecessor, black powder. Through j common usage the term has become . iiniversallv accepted, but technically it is incorrect. . Shoe's Life In certain combat zones a soldier's shoes may last only two weeks, but in other zones they may * is going to use its organized strength : ing. Refreshments were served and htating stoves and furnaces is the to fight higher prices and the ad- • priM winners were Jacob P. Miller, time to clean chimneys and flues and ministration is at present counjmg Mrs. Jacob P. Miller. Mrs. Joseph pipes. The home should be inspected on enough support from the labof\ M. Schaefer and Peter Freund, Jr. lobby itself the results of the pro- ' Daniei Kennebok and infant subsidy publicity on the general pub- sonA Duarie Daniel, left St. Therese lie, to sustain a presidential veto of hogJta, Sundav and js ftt home wj(h any measure banning subsidies. he/parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nick There is no sign of enough votes to from attic to basement, and all rubbish removed that tends to create a fire hazard. Points of contact where pipes or chimneys pass^ihrough ceilings and roof should be carefully nr.fJpr.tSth» nfil °i en?",gh ler !n Richmond. checked. Electric cords should come pnnimh irp pvA nfeH°t ^ ^ 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Schmitt cele- in 'or their share of inspection and .wnty-Mth weddin, an., be made.^ fdr have to be gone through with unless the farm bloc feels it has an accurate measure of the administration's strength, as revealed by various test votes, so that it can compromise without going through the veto process. Either way, some kind of a compromise will undoubtedly be reached. But the way is a weary one. • - • • • . Preview of ' Invasion Tactict W^.h invasion in the offing I decided I wanted a. preview. A little difficult to arrange, I admit. I know, however, that you could see a full dress rehearsal at the amphibious base at Fort Pierce, Fla. That institution has been cloaked in the darkest secrecy until recently. Just > before the base celebrated its anniversary I was allowed to look behind the scenes. No details can be reported of this revolutionary development in American military history that started fresh from zero. For almost a full week 1 watched and, in some cases, worked wiith the men who make "amphibious ac- ! tion" possible--those who go over ! the transport side into the landing j craft and up the beach, and the other j men who see that they get there, from scouts and raiders who slip in ; at night, crawling through the wash | of a strange beach to throttle the ; sentries and clear the way for the j others, to the last of the reserves | I have never met a finer type of i man, soldier or marine, and they are' all there--army, navy, coast i guard, and the engineers, the sea- j bees, the medicos, scouts, raiders j and the other specialists. Coopera- ' tion is. the key to the greatest i achievement in amphibious actionarmy and navy working together as one. It is a navy operation r^ht up to the tide water markv where the, army takes command, but a close ly interwoven texture, as much a single, unit as a fighting division of land troops or a navy task force. I talked with their leaders, tough. quiet young men, who have learned by doing--they know what. it is to land on a strange shore in Africa or Sicily or the Pacific. They are a great lot--the scouts and raiders (our commandos) some big, some little, some college athletes, some 1 from farm and factory, but all hard, wiry, certain, and anxious for more action. MohammedanPilgrimage The Mohammed® pilgrimage to Mecca has totaledannually from 25,000 to more than 100.000 pilgrims. The world-wide depression had reduced greatly the Hadj, as the pious journey is called. War and the closing of sea lanes again had cut the number of pilgrims, with proportionate losses to the revenues of Saudi Arabia. Indispensable Strait The strip of .ater between Flor-, ida island and Iffnlaita, in the Solomons, is named "Indispensable*' sUait." "WAR BONDS , • • winning victory right in my kitchen I iiised to wish 1 ft nuta.1 envied men-their part in winning victory. N6fr I realize I can do plenty myself, right here in my own home, to stop the Axis have become a one-woman army, waging war on waste and inefficiency. I tend a victory garden, can foods, collect fats for explosives, save waste paper, buy War Bonds with every dollar I ah save. ^ FOUR STAR GENE*^ . ,1 is no small job. There nA of * bou!>^0^. . rationed foo<i» Being in . i:nes " to main**10 budg«« £ vitamin "»upp>y. hneS ns ,o organs . . B R I E F S . . by Baukhage May Bant cyrea ' ' Early cabbage will stand for some time, but particularly in times of heavy rain, the heads are act te buys! open. Wood is growing in our forests at the rate of about 11,000,000.000 cubic feet per year or about 21,500 cubic feet per mirilite. Wood is being taken from the forests at the rate of about 13,000.000.000*%cubic feet per year, of which 2.000,000,000 cubic feet is lost due to fire, insects, and disease. If these destroyers could be controlled, piesent wood growth would almost balance wood use. Twenty-sfven barter stores have been opened in Berlin, the British radio says, in reporting that the Berlin chamber of commerce had decided to make all ware? subjec to barter. • . ' -.i , * • ' i Texas farm woodlands have an ] excellent record in fire prevention*- with less than 1 per cent burned an- ' nually for the past several years. • > j quartermaster CO*5* ORDNANCE CHlEf give me 5* Spray Helps Yield • Potatoes sprayed through the season with Bordeaux mixture yield an average of 70 bushels to the acre •'more than unsprayed potatoes in a year when blight is slight. In a year ; of much blight damage, Jt prevents ! loss of an entire crop.. j Healthful Qualities The soybean is outstanding in protein quality, the cottonseed as a source of riboflavin, and the. peanut as a source of nicotinic aeid.. --- A • Wheat Consumption Bolivia consumes only about ®0 pounds of wheat yearly per capita against bread and wheat consumption of 375 pounds per capita in Argetina, the greatest wheat-growing country among the other Americas. Statue of Liberty October 28, 1886, marked the dedication in New York harbor of the Statue of Liberty. It was presented to the United States by the people el France. L Cook Them in Jaeksti So far as potatoes are concerned,- it is far better from the standpoint of nutritive value as well as flavor, to cook them in their jackets and peel them after cooking. 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